Thirteen Senses

From Cornwall

The band began as Soul Magician in Penzance. Will South wrote songs at school and showed them to Adam Wilson, who left his other band, and the group took off after they met Tom Welham, who knew Brendon James. As Soul Magician they made the Inside a Healing Mind EP in 2002, produced by Leon Phillips, and the No Other Life Is Attractive EP that December, produced by Dare Mason. Falls in the Dark was a self-released demo album in April 2003.

"Thru the Glass" came out as a limited single on March 1, 2004, followed by "Do No Wrong" on May 31 and "Into the Fire" on September 13. The Invitation came out on September 27, 2004 on Vertigo, produced by Danton Supple. NME reported support slots with Gomez, V Festival dates and in-store acoustic sets in Truro, London, Camberley and Birmingham. "Thru the Glass" was re-released on January 10, 2005 and reached number 18 in the UK, and Wikipedia, citing nothing, says they are the only Cornish band with a UK top 20 single. They played Glastonbury, T in the Park and V Festival in 2005.

Contact (April 2, 2007, Mercury, produced by Supple) reached 76, after a delay from January because the band said extra material could not be ignored. Crystal Sounds was streamed in March 2010 and released physically on February 21, 2011 on B-Sirius, A Strange Encounter followed on May 5, 2014, and The Bound and the Infinite on August 9, 2024. We found no independent reviews of the last. Norman Fleisher of Nothing But Hope And Passion called A Strange Encounter a tender final wave from a talented band, though the band has not split.